Editing Tyrol (state) (section)

=== Medieval and Early Modern Eras ===
When the Counts of Tyrol died out in 1253, their estates were inherited by the [[Meinhardiner]] Counts of [[County of Görz|Görz]]. In 1271, the Tyrolean possessions were divided between Count [[Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia|Meinhard&nbsp;II of Görz]] and his younger brother [[Albert I of Gorizia|Albert&nbsp;I]], who took the lands of East Tyrol around Lienz and attached them (as "outer county") to his committal possessions around [[Gorizia]] ("inner county").

The last Tyrolean countess of the Meinhardiner Dynasty, [[Margaret, Countess of Tyrol|Margaret]], bequeathed her assets to the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] duke [[Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria|Rudolph&nbsp;IV of Austria]] in 1363. In 1420, the committal residence was relocated from [[Merano]] to Innsbruck. The Tyrolean lands were reunited when the Habsburgs inherited the estates of the extinct Counts of Görz in 1500.